Interior Architecture Talk with Raymund Königk
On Wednesday, 4th January, between 18:00 and 19:30, the last Interior Architecture Talk of the Fall Semester 2022/23 will take place. Our Guest, Dr. Raymund Königk will talk about "'Covering' the Windows: When Architects commit Interior Design".
Following the presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions and discuss.
The Interior Architecture Talk will take place online. Click here to join the virtual talk.
Students across all disciplines are invited to participate in interdisciplinary exchange. Be inspired and get to know new perspectives!
About the lecture series
The Interior Architecture Talks at the Faculty of Architecture and Design, Berlin International University of Applied Sciences, address the theme "Interior Architecture. Autonomy and Interdisciplinary Relations.“
Four international speakers present their work and discuss with respondents from Germany – focusing on core topics like adaptive reuse, the theorization of the interior discipline, the notion of interiority, and interior design’s relationship to architecture.
The lecture series "Interior Architecture. Autonomy and Interdisciplinary Relations" is supported by Netzwerk Architekturwissenschaft e.V. with funding from Sutor-Stiftung.
The Fall 2022/23 Interior Architecture Talks are an online series, partially hybrid, and open to the public.
About Raymund Königk
Dr. Raymund Königk is a Senior Lecturer in Interior Design at the Lincoln School of Architecture and the Built Environment, UK. His doctoral studies (2015) at the University of Pretoria, ZA, investigated the role of generating meaning in interior artifacts. His thesis is titled: “An Imaginal Interpretation of Interior Design’s Methods of Cultural Production: Towards a Strategy for Constructing Meaning”. Raymund is a Fellow of Advance HE. His published works include refereed articles, conference papers, technical reports, and other scholarly-based contributions. Raymund is the recipient of two professional awards and numerous academic prizes. Raymund’s scholarly endeavor focuses on the professionalization of interior design.
About the talk
The BI Interior Architecture Talk '‘'Covering’ the Windows: When Architects commit Interior Design" considers the contentious relationship between interior design and architecture. It will demonstrate the professional embarrassment suffered by interior designers, especially as it is exposed in debates about the title of the discipline. It will provide some examples of Erving Goffman’s ‘passing’ and ‘covering’ in the professional conduct of interior designers and debunk some popular myths, such as ‘interior design is just a little bit of architecture,’ ‘we don’t do curtains,’ and ‘architects can automatically design interiors’.